adam@spotted:~$ ls -l Mail
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Aug 18 01:37 billing
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 11:59 bugtraq
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 01:43 default
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 02:28 idt
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 01:36 inbox
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 02:27 inet
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 01:43 mailer-daemon
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 01:41 nanog
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 8 10:52 nic
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 01:46 old
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 01:35 qmail
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 29 21:26 raid
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 01:43 root
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 01:42 smp
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Aug 13 20:13 themes.org
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Jul 2 16:05 tx
drwx------ 5 adam adam 1024 Aug 18 01:33 virtual
This is the way my folders are organized. This makes sense to me.
Everything that's not caught by a specific .qmail file or procmail rule is
sent to ~/Mail/inbox/
> Then what you will have to ask yourself is whether you want all your
> folders shared by every one of your incoming maildirs. I could consider
> the proposal of storing all folders in ../Mail, however what I don't like
> about this approach is that you're now in conflict with your mail apps who
> use $HOME/Mail to store traditional mailbox-file folders.
If we're really that concerned about this, we could decide upon a new,
"standard" directory (such as Maildirs/ or Mailboxes/ etc). In any case,
mutt has no problem with my method of keeping my mail folders, and as far
as I know, most mailers allow you to specify this as a variable or config
option.
> Additionally, the approach of storing folders in the INBOX maildir allows
> the implementation of a voluntary quota, which I've done, and I know that
> people are using it, so I'm not going to abandon that.
Fixing this up only involves the addition of a single directory inside ~/Mail.
--Adam
